Hair-undulating apparatus



Jan. .13. "1,925.

R. J. OTT

HAIR UNDULATING MPARATUS Filed Feb. 16, 1924 Patented Jan. 13,1925.

LSZBQW F i Q saws RENA'IUS JOSEF OTT, OF SAALFELD, GERMANY.

HAIR-UNDULATING APPARATUS.

Application filed February 16, 1924.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RENATUS Josnr' Orr, a citizen of the Republic of Germany, residing at Saalfeld, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Undulating Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an apparatus for waving the hair. The apparatus of this kind are based on the principle that the hair is gripped between tongs consisting of a lower jaw of undulated sheet metal serving as support for the hair and of a narrow transverse upper jaw of undulated sheet metal movable with regard to the lower aw. The hair spread in this manner is held by two fork-shaped side arms so that at first a simple wave is produced from which the so-called Marcel wave is obtained by displacement of the two parts of the apparatus. The hair is however submitted to strong tensile stress as the first curve of the hair extending transversely to the rounding of the tongs must be further extended in forward and backward direction so that the hair in the tongs is torn and pulled in opposite directions wherefrom results a very injurious effect. A further inconvenience consists in that at the displacement of the parts of the tongs the hair does frequently not move with these parts as it cannot afford the necessary displacement so that the undulation becomes irregular and of bad appearance.

This invention has for its object to obviate these inconveniences by creating a waving apparatus in which the hair is arranged at different heights above the supporting jaws, the layers of hair being displaced with regard to one another with the aid of a set-oli' frame in such a manner that no injurious pull is executed on the hair.

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, with the understanding that while in the drawings one embodiment of the invention is disclosed, the invention is not confined to any strict conformity with the showing of the drawings but may be embodied in any manner which does not make a material departure from the salient features of the invention.

In the drawing:

Figs. 1 and 2 show the waving apparatus in side elevation in different positions.

Serial No. 693.365.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the apparatus, and

Fig. 4 is an end view of the same viewed from the handle.

' The waving apparatus consists of a longitudinal supporting frame a from which a rod (61 with a handle a projects. On this longitudinal frame a a movable frame is mounted which is adapted to be oscillated in forward and backward directions and consists of two end parts made from wire and connected with one another by combshaped side stays.

Each end part of this movable frame consists of a wire bent to form an upper horizontal rod 0 which is connected at both ends by means of downwardly directed inclined rods d and c with lower horizontal rods f and g from the outer ends of which outwardly inclined side rods 72- and a: extend in upward direction.

The comb-shaped lateral stays 7a are hingedly mounted on the upper ends of said inclinedside rods h and z' of the front and rear end parts, so that a frame is formed which at the middle of the rods 6, (Z has small lugs m which project in the longitudinal direction of the frame and are designed to receive laterally projecting studs 71 of frame a. The end parts of the movable frame are thus securely held on the horizontal handle frame but free to oscillate around the studs a. On the horizontal top rods (3 the feet 0 of the trough-shaped hair support 7) are loosely mounted.

The upper jaw Q designed to be placed upon the support 2') is hingedly mounted by means of two feet 7' on the horizontal rod 0 at the handle end of the apparatus. This upper jaw Q has a convex lower surface curved in accordance with the curvature of the concave lower jaw or support 2) and a flat top surface. If this upper jaw is hollow as shown the free space in the same may be used for accommodating any convenient source of heat. On each lower horizontal rod f and 9 supports 8, 25 respectively are mounted by means of feet, and on each of the lower supports, an upper jaw u n respectively is hingedly mounted.

Clamps to serve to hold the upper jaws pressed on the corresponding supports.

The undulating apparatus is used in the following manner:

The handle a of the apparatus is held with the left hand so that the teeth of the comb-shaped side stays in are upwardly diill) lln

strand of hair is thus waved but merely transversely to the loi'igitudinaldirection of the apparatus.

The'position of the three supports 5, p, t is now altered by :oscillating the set-off frame aroundthe'studs a, the hair being 1 brought out of the straight direction so that the waves are laterally deflected and the undulation is ma'de to extend obliquely" from The change of poone wave to the other. sition is carried out without pulling the hair as the distances betweenthe several supports remain the same, the parts ofthe strand of hallflOlll *one support to the other' extendingifrom above to below obliquely in a lateral direction.

a'Qwing to the fact that t-he supportsa, 72-, t

are not arranged and moved in't-he same horizontal plane but oscillate around the pivot points it for a uniform distance for ward and backward the strand of 11-21 11" is undulated in laterally curved-waves without being submitted to any pulling stress.

The upper part of the undulating-"apparatusscan not only be oscillated in forward direction as shown in Fig. 2 but'also'in backwardwdirection so that the next following portion of thestrand ofhair could be-undulated in a direction opposite to that in whiclrthe preceding strand of hair'has been undulated. Y

- Heated iron rods, electric heating resistances or any other convenient heating me dium could be mounted in the hollow upper I claim 2-- A hair undulating apparatus comprising in combination a horizontal frame, a handle.

at one end of this horizontal frame, a movable frame mounted in this horizontal frame so that it can be oscillated about the same .in" forward" and backward *directions, ;said movable frame consisting of "two end frames: of wire-bent to' forin upper horizontal rod above said horizontal-handle franie, two downwardly directed outwardly inclined inner side rodsftwo lateral" horizontalrods situated belowsaid'handle' 'franie at about the sanie distance as the "horiiontahtop roun'dstands' above said hairdle frame, and two upwardly extendin outwardlydncliiaed outer side r ods', of two comb-shaped 'side stayshinged each on the *top" ends of-the two outerside rods atone side ofthe moiable frame, three hair supports-*liaving a concave s'urfac'e inountedon thesaid three hor zontal rods at the two ends of-said mow able frame, and-three hollow upper jaws having a flat' top' surface and a convex lower surface', hingedlymounted atonee d to the Y horizontal rods of the handle -1 and of said movable frame. o

' In testimony whereof I'afiiX'my signati'ire in presence oftwo' witnesses V RENATUS' Josie]? OTT.

" Witnesses RUDOLPH FRIGKE, WILLY 

